Rocky eighth-grade boys capture conference meet

The Rocky Mountain Middle School track and field program completed a successful 2024 season last week by hosting the Big Horn Conference meet in Cowley.
The home cooking paid off for the Rocky eighth-grade boys, as they topped the field of six schools to win the team title with 169 points, well ahead of second-place Burlington with 120.6 points.
In other divisions, the Rocky seventh-grade boys placed second to Greybull with 113 points to Greybull’s 200. The eighth-grade girls placed third, the seventh-grade Lady Grizz fourth.
In racking up 169 points, the Grizzly eighth-grade boys earned eight first-place medals and three second-place medals led by Mason Moss, who won four events.
Moss won the 200-meter dash in a time of 24.96, the 100-meter hurdles in 15.64, the 200-meter hurdles in 28.56 and the high jump, clearing 5-5.
Cooper Ward won two eighth-grade events, capturing the 100-meter dash in 12.78 and the long jump, sailing 15-4¾. He also placed third in the triple jump with a leap of 31-7½.
Cooper Winland threw 40-6 to take the eighth grade shot put.
The team of Gary Gardner, Winland, Zach Unruh and Ethan Haslem won the 1,600-meter relay in a time of 4:49.14.
Unruh placed second in the 400-meter dash, completing the oval in 1:02.22, third in the 800 meters with a time of 2:31.78 and third in the 1,600 meters at 6:28.40. Alex Walker was the runner-up in the eighth grade shot put with a throw of 34-9. Walker also placed third in the discus, flinging the disc 108-11½.
Jaxon Hayes placed third in the 200-meter hurdles in 34.10.
The eighth grade 400-meter relay team of John Mader, Walker, Kreegan Jones and Gardner placed second in 1:15.21, while the same foursome placed third in the 800-meter sprint medley relay with a time of 2:35.65.
Other Rocky eighth-grade boys conference results (top 10) were:
200m dash -- Jaxon Hayes fifth; 400m dash – Ethan Haslem fourth; 800 meters – Haslem eighth, Kreegan Jones ninth; 1,600 meters – Haslem fourth, Jones sixth; long jump – Hayes fourth; triple jump – Cooper Winland fourth, Hayes sixth; discus – Winland fourth, Mader fifth; shot put – Mader sixth.
Seventh-grade boys
For the seventh-grade boys team, Jaxx May won the high jump, clearing 5-2, and captured the 200-meter dash in 28.27.
Sixth grader Tyler Crosby won the seventh-grade pole vault by clearing the bar at 6-6. May also placed second in the 400-meter dash, completing the lap in 1:03.01, and second in the 800 meters in 2:35.68.
The team of sixth graders Xavier Hetland, Derek Hedges, Dane Wilson and Tyler Crosby placed second in the seventh grade 400-meter relay in a time of 1:09.84, and the foursome of Madden Cooley, Cameron Minchow, Jayden Scheeler and Jason Unruh placed second in the 1,600-meter relay in 5:39.72.
Jaxson Sponsel placed third in the 200-meter hurdles in a time of 36.45, and the 800-meter sprint relay team of Crosby, Hedges, Hetland and Wilson placed third in a time of 2:41.42.
In field events, sixth grader Hudson Moore placed third in the seventh-grade long jump with a leap of 13 feet and third in the triple jump, sailing 28-0.
Other Rocky seventh-grade boys conference results (top 10) were:
100m dash – Brooks Brost sixth, 300m dash – Brost fourth, Rowan Hanusa fifth, Cameron Minchow eighth; 400m dash – Hanusa seventh; 800 meters – Madden Cooley seventh, Hanusa 10th; 1,600 meters – Hanusa fourth, Cooley fifth, Jason Unruh ninth, Minchow 10th; 100m hurdles – Hudson Moore sixth, Ty Samson ninth; 200m hurdles – Moore fourth, Tyler Crosby fifth, Samson sixth; high jump – Brost fourth, Samson seventh, Jaxson Sponsel ninth; long jump – Brost seventh, Sponsel ninth; triple jump – Samson sixth, Jayden Scheeler seventh, Sponsel eighth; discus – Dane Wilson seventh; shot put – Wilson sixth.
Eighth-grade girls
Kennedy Brimhall had a strong meet for the eighth-grade girls team. She won the high jump by clearing 4-1 and placed second in both the 100- and 200-meter dash, running the 100 in 15.15 and the 200 in 32.06. She also placed fifth in the triple jump, leaping 27-6.
Leah Haslem placed second in the eighth-grade 800 meters, running a time of 3:08.81, with Bailey Gifford right behind her in third place at 3:13.30.
Gifford placed third in the 400-meter dash, running the oval in 1:20.91, with Haslem fourth at 1:23.06, and Haslem placed third in the 1,600 meters in 6:51.39, with Gifford fourth at 7:01.13. Gifford also placed fifth in the 200-meter dash in 34.77.
Haslem placed ninth in the long jump at 10-3¾.
Seventh-grade girls
Sawyer Bassett won two events for the seventh-grade girls, capturing the long jump with a leap of 13-10 and the triple jump at 28-8. She also placed second in the 200-meter hurdles in a time of 38.21 and fifth in the 100-meter hurdles in 20.88.
Sixth grader Taylor Grandalen placed second in the seventh-grade 1,600 meters in a time of 7:05.03, and sixth grader Elli Ganoung placed third in the seventh-grade 200-meter hurdles in 38.31 and third in the triple jump with a leap of 26-5.
The 800-meter sprint medley relay team of Kaylie Watts, Eden Wallway, Mariah Mauch and Brooklin Heron placed third in a time of 2:41.37.
Other Rocky seventh-grade girls conference results (top 10) were:
100m dash – Elli Ganoung ninth; 200m dash – Ganoung sixth, Annie Crosby 10th; 400m dash – Kaylie Watts sixth; high jump – Taylor Grandalen fifth; triple jump – Crosby eighth; 400-meter relay team fifth.